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Bavinck’s Books

Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck (1854–1921) is widely celebrated as a leading divine in the Reformed tradition, and through the ongoing labor of translation teams, editors, and publishers, his vast writings are reaching English readers.

This site — HermanBavinck.org — aims to make that access even easier. Here English readers will find a full list of Bavinck’s available works, updates on current translation projects, and a list of books and articles about Bavinck as they are announced.

Books by Bavinck (in English):

Reformed Ethics (Baker, 2019–). In 2010, Dirk van Keulen announced the discovery of a lengthy manuscript of a previously unknown Bavinck title on ethics, Gereformeerde Ethiek, “a virtually unpublished monograph” hand-written in several notebooks. Keyed into Dutch, the long work of English translation commenced. But in 2012 project editor John Bolt made a further discovery: “the Bavinck manuscript was over 1,100 pages instead of the 560 total that we were working with. . . . Instead of a one-volume work, we are now projecting a three-volume work,” published through Baker Academic.

Christelijke Wereldbeschouwing (The Christian Worldview). Dutch version only, this work needs to be translated eventually. See the Internet Archive for the 1904 or 1913 editions. Find the 2019 English translation here.

Daniel Strange, Their Rock Is Not Like Our Rock: A Theology of Religions(Zondervan, 2015). While not entirely devoted to Herman Bavinck, much of it is (and a fair bit to J.H. Bavinck). The book turns to Bavinck to resolve the question of why non-Christian religions flourish under God’s sovereignty.